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Once more we offer you our beautiful selections from the Holiday markets with which to
fill old Santa’s Pack that spills jov and gladness so generously. We have arranged our store
for your shopping convenience. We hav e one table of miscellaneous prices. All the other
sections are priced each by itself so that all articles in one section are one price. As usual
our prices are lower than others and we have demonstrated in the past that this is Holiday
Headquarters. Let your visit to our store be an early one.
LEST WE FORGET
Twas Christmas morn; and the coming day.
(»Jin ted across where the white samv lay.
The icicles, touched by lights magic beams,
Cave prismatic colors and sparkling gleams.
The trees were ail laden with glittering snow.
1 liai dazzelcd and llusliixion limbs bent low.
T he intt-r birds t w tiered ; tli-- fa itit glow from the sun
Announced that tho day bad only begun.
In a hou>.. risji brown from the white of the snow.
Stood a boy and a yrl in the firelight glow.
The girl.'dainty maiden, a little mite
Whose pink t<x.*s peeped uadi r nightgown white.
Was crying bitterly, dear little iamb.
An ! the reason was plain. On the chimney jamb
Hung t wo V.M I»T V stocki ngs. A d the lad.
Bravely hiding Ins wee said. “I>on’t cry so bad,
"Cause we know Santa Claus just love- ns a lot
"But he's gqi so many kids I giie-s he forgot,**
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Miscellaneous
Section
Iluok and Ladder Trucks
Magazine Air Rifles
Men's Toilet (’use
Babies’ Toilet Sets
Cigar Cases
Manicure Sets Nut Sets
Military Brushes
Sewing Boxes
Simplex Typewriter
Post Card Albums
The Beat Dictionary
Music Rolls
Kraft wood Toilet Sets
Carving S i Desk Sets
Scissors in Set
Crumb Tray
Color Boxes
Beautiful Dolls
Shaving Sets
Shopping Bags
Foot Balls
Dishes, Hand painted
Tool Chests
Post Card Projectors
Hobby Horses
Knives in Holly Boxes
Doll Cabs
Rocket Automobile
oO Cent Section
Beautiful Pictures
Books for Boys and (litis
Dishes of Excellent Valu
Cash Register
Automobiles
Wagons, ('ait and llorsesr
Air Ships
Boxed Stationary
Speakers for School i'se
Purses
IJr itnf and Horns
Dolls of all K-iuds
Hattd Paint d China
(lames and Balls
King Air Guns
Guns with Targets
Tumble in Game
Shaving Brush in Box
Cups and Saucers
Perfumes in Fancy Boxes
Pipes i:i Holly Boxes
Shoo Flier.
Pocket Books in Holly Boxes
Doll Go-carts
Building Blocks
Mechanical Toys
Gold Pens with Pearl Holder
Sewing Boxes
Post Card Albums
25 Cent Section
Algers Boys Books
Rugby Boys Series
Pictures
Dressed Dolls
Carpel Sweepers
Guns and Targets
Climbing Monkeys
l^di s Memorandums
Clips ami Saucers
Vases and Cream Pitchers
Decorated Dishes
Horns
Rubber Dolls
Kid Body Dolls
Dskinio Dolls
Automobiles
Air Ships
Books and Blocks
Toy Furniture
Games of Various Kinds
Checker Boards
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Dominoes Ten Pins
Delivery Wagons
Mechanical Toys
Push Toys
Work Boxes
A B C Blocks
Stuffed Animals
King Pop Guns
10 Cent St2Ctio 1
Shaving Mugs
Childrens rial Irons
Hisqu*' Doits
Whips and Heins
MI 'Lai Dishes
Pocket Minors
1 lomlnoes
Checkerboards *
A Ii C Blocks
Wash Boards
Bo me rung Guns
Banks Vas s
Polic l'op Guns
Baby Hatties
Btufft d Animals
Doll Ilea la
Pictur* and (i nines
I dirge Shears
Toy Watches
Balls and Tops
Wooden Carts
Tin \\ n.;ons
Girls Purses
('bid's Table Sets
Tin Toys and Horns
Doll Dishes
Decorated Plates
Cream Pictures
Cups and Saucers
5 Cent Section
Big Dulls
Drawing Blau's
I Junks
a I; o B looks
Rat Bos for Baby
Bantu: us
Horns anil Fifes
Child* n's Mug*
Fati: y Tin Oupa
Vases
Cream Pit In rs ■
Balt and P * .»■ n» * ;
i:-a Bhuii Tum!d'*i
C lluJnld Horn a
Whips and Reinn
Toy Dishus and Tiays
Doll's Knife and Forks
('aHope Horns
Cradles
There are
BARGAINS
in every
Section
MANY OTHER THINGS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION
MORSMAN DRUG CO.
YULETiDE BRINGS IT’S DUTIES
THE QUIET HOUR
“Mud Mortar.”
Not long since a large new building,
in New York, collapsed. The disaster
tarried with it death and heavy pro
perty losses. The verdict of the in
vestigators was, ‘ .Mud mortar.' L* -
cause sand was cheaper than lime,
the contractor, willing to risk inno
cent lives, used more sand and less
lime than the specifications and pub
lic safety called for. InsUad of a
rock-like concrete, he used a mud-like
substitute.
When New York's philanthropist of
several generations ago, Peter Coop
er. died, an eulogist, speaking of his
rigid business integrity, said, “When
he goes up before the great white
throne, to give an account of the
deeds done in the body, he will not.
have a single dirty dollar to account
for.”
Some other folks will. Their dol
lars are smeared with inud—mortar
mud; and blood. The most radiant
optimist who talks with many men in
the various walks of life, cannot a
void the conviction, thgt the worka
day world is honey-combed with rot
ten business methods. There are up
right business men, of course, a host
of them, hut the average man. active
ly in touch, with the larger business
movements of the times, if *he tells
you his honest conviction, tells you
he is not very sure of anybody who
is identified with the wider commer
cial world, when profits and probity
are rival bidders for him.
And it is only too true that there
are always multitudes of men to be
found who are eagerly ready to make
"mud mortar” for “dirty dollars” es
pecially if there is a fair chance of
immunity from prosecution if the
building collapses.
It is not muckraking (the “dirty dol
lar” people would be only to glad to
spread that impression), but sober,
solemn fact to say that there is not a
disreputable trick of trade;not glar
ing breach of trust; not ruthless sac
rifice of innocent lives; not a corrupt
political bargain; not a vile pander
mg to lust; not a single sin in the
whole calendar, that crowds of men
not in professional criminal classes
—cannot be found r ady to jump at
the chat.' i of committing it. for mon
ey, Back of almost all sin which you
Back hack to its lair in this land lo
ck;> ofl a t; ;■ > - ilj.ulc is . ■ 0(1;
greed that stands ready to sell God
Himself—Judr.s did—for a jingling
handful of silver. And if it will sell
God, of course it will sell man.
But let us stop dealing in glittering
generalities, and come down to cold
illustrative of this mud-mortar-dirty
dollar trend of things—which has
drifted unsought, into the writer’s
casual conversations within recent
weeks.
A friend is erecting a large manu-.
facturing building. Bart of the work
is concrete. The specifications fixed
the ratio to be used in the mixture as
1-3-5—one part cement, three sand an
five of broken stone. He made an
nuexpected visit to the place one day
and found that the proportion of
sand and stone was being trebled and
suceceded in stopping it only after a
vigorous protest. This was only one
of a number of similiar steals by
which the contractor was endeavor
ing to swell his profits on the job.
Yesterday, in a conversation with
another man who is building an at-'
tractive suburban home, he said: "E
very time I go out and compare the j
work with the blue prints I find some!
new evasion of the specifications I
am convinced that many contractors
habitually aim to underbid competit
ors and make it up by inferior or o
mitted work, utterly regardless of the i
specifications.”
Here is case number three. Last
week on the car. a city inspector of
livestock, on his way to inspect some
newly arrived cattle, said: "Again
and again men will come here with
tubercular cattle and sick hogs, and
will be ready to curse us. after we |
give them incontestable proof that
their stock is diseased, for not "pass
ing’’ the stoc k and permitting them j
to bo butchered bor general consump
tion.” Money.
K cently, in talking with an ex
state inspector of foods. In cited tho
familiar fact that numbers of nomin
ally respectable men are to bo found,
ready to use the most dangerous a
dulterants in medicines and foods,
and that every trick ofbribery and po
litical pull is resorted - to
in order to prevent interference with
their efforts to poison the public;
and he gav - n>Ht; mus ific i ' in
ces with name and date ana hod.
.Money.
A week or two ago a little fellow,
of .six or eight, whose mother is dead
and whose father has been brutaliz
ed by drink, went with his grandmoth
er to one of our city cemeteries, to
visit his mother's grave. As they
turned to leave he hurst into tears
and exclaimed, "I wish 1 was lying
there with my mamma.” Drink had
made the home a hell, robbed the
little fellow of childhood's heritage of
lightheartedness; broken his poor lit
tle heart. And this is only one in
the e ndless list of indictments which
may be brought against it. The whole
saloon system is a curse to any c om
munity. and we all know it. And yet,
because there is money in it. there
are hundreds of thousands of men in
the business, and other hundreds of
thousands ready to defend and pro
tect it. It is the same old story of
“mud mortar" and “dirty dollars."
Ii meets you at every turn. Make it
financially worth while and you can
get “respectable” people to enlist in
any undertaking regardless of what it
may entail upon others in the way
of suffering and sorrow.
One of the things sorely needed to
day is a revival of ethical righteous
ness—social, commercial, civic. The
religion that does not promote these
brands of everyday morality is a farce
—John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, Paul
all said so; as well as a long line of
prophets. A religion that will not
keep a man from mud-mortar, is not
Christ's religion, whatever name it
tears.—Selected. ,
Advertisers will give you a Christ
mas treat if you tell them you asw
their ad in the Tribune.
FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS
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“Moving piicture Theaters Enlisted in
The Army of Crusaders
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Moving picture theaters have be-n
enlisted in the array of crusaders
fighting tuberculosis by selling lied
Cross Christmas Seals, and on Dec.
ICtii in all parts of the United Star
a film entitled ‘ The lied Cios-.- Seal"
wiil be exhibited for the first time
according to an announcement of tin
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
'. . • pii ■; ■ di a’w -■ b‘ *>n p:odu<.
ed by the Edison Manufacturing Com
pany in co-operation with the Nation
al Association for the Study and Pre
vention of Tuberculosis and the A
merican Red Cross . it portrays an j
interesting story of New York life, >
and is beside filled with educational
scenes that show how tuberculosis
is contracted and how it may be pre- I
vented and cured. Tire film is 1,000
feet long. The tuberculosis workers
in every state in the United States
are urging their local theaters to ex
hibit the picture.
The plot of the story centers about
the winning of the priize of $100 for
the best d'-sign for the Red Cross
Seal for 1910, by Ellen Williams, a i
poor girl of the tenements who mak- j
es her living by decorating lamp-shad- j
es for very meagre wages. She has !
applied to the art school where she
longs to take a course of study, but j
finds that the cost. $100. is too much !
for her purse. As she turns to leave ]
the school, a voting man of wealth j
sees her in the office and is struck '
by the pathos of her beauty and dis- j
appointment. Tired of his purposeleg
life, Jordan resolves to so-e for him
self “how the other half lives." In
clothes of an ordinary day laborer,
therefore, he rents a room in the
same tenement with Ellen and soon
becomes greatly attached to her. He
sees her struggle to win the $100
prize for the Red Cross Seal design,
and finally sees her win it. Then
he sees -er give up all the ambitions
of her life, when she turns over the
$100 to a neighbor, so that her con
sumptive boy might have a chance to
be cured at a sanatorium.
Struck by tin- noble sacrifice, Jor
dan unknowv lo Ellen, buys- tb«- t t; -
ment, r. novut tbe neighboring a
partme-ni, < ulh ; the m- operation of
a district nurse, arid helps thus to re
store the coasumptiv to health arid
remove from hi. family the danger of
further Infection.
Thun, in th ad, when .Jordon re
veals to Ellen bin identity, she finds
in his propc:- al that uin -bur with
him bis palatial Fifth Avenue mansion
she bur gain.-.- a -r-.i love, a home,
and th ; nti- in t <.:■ of ln*r ambition,
all because of the H<-d Cross Seal.
The Women's Clubs have united in
the noble work of disposing of as
many "Hed Cross Seals" in Falls City
as possible this year. The pretty seal
stickers are for sab* at all the drug
stores in the < ity. The money r< al
iz<-d from their sab- goes to the Red
Cross Society and will be used to
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help finance the world-wide effort to
stamp out the “white plague.;' No
more laudable line of philanthropy is
now being agitated than this effort
to break the strong clutch of tuber
culosis on the human race. Use all
the stamps you can. They only cost
a cent a piece and make a very pr< t
tv seal to attach to letters and Xmas
packages generally. A few dollars
spent in this way will leave you none
the poorer and help a good cause.
NEBRASKA'S POPULATION.
Nebraska has 1,192,214 people—a
bout half as many as live in the city
of Chicago. But this is 12.1.914 more
than tbe state had ten years ago.
Douglas county gained 28,118, Lan
caster 8.918. Tiiat makes 37.11G add
ed to the cities of Lincoln and Oma
ha. That leaves a gain of 87.T98 in
the rural districts—about 1.01 per
sons to the square mile of ar- a. This
is about what the birth rate should
show in ten years above the death
rate
The following counties have lost in
population: Burt. Butler, Cass, Clay,
Cuming. Dixon, Dodge, Fillmore, Fron
tier, Furnas, Gasper, Johnson. Kear
ney, Nemaha. Otoe, Pawnee, Phelps,
Polk, Richardson. Saline, Saunders
and Washington. Some of the eoun
ties have lost more than 1.000 inhabi
at.ts. A county which losses 1.000
people is stri.« k a bard blow ami
every busin* -ss in the county is in
jured tb ft by.
Thl: 1.- rite r ..foil that ti e iaia'e
.Wo- u> ion of Commercial t !ubs is
waging at a -the campaign for intelli
gent immigration work and state ad
v rtish.e. To bring jx-opl-. out west
of the Missouri ih r is the aim of
tie* Western Iaunl Products Exhibit
?p be bald In Omaha .la*.nary 18 to 28.
it is ■ • .nati d that 2**0.nno people go
across Nvbrs.-ka each year to homes
beyond. A very Ja r g t per cent of
them stop in Omaha and the show is
well planned to catch tli people who
simply '‘must move" in the spring.
Tite Nebraska exhibit at this show
should stop a large number of people
in Nebraska, it hat. been the work of
Omaha men and the exhbsiit in Oma
ha which has caused Scotts liiuff coin
ty to show an Increase from 2.fm5 in
1900 to s.sr.r. in 1910. The Western
Land Products exhibit is going to
bring some settlers to Nebraska if the
Nebraska * xliihit is w hat ii should be.
The census returner for Nebraska
as far as they are known at this time
Indicate that Richardson County is a
uiong those that have lost in popula
tion during the ten years. This is
only a more emphatic verification of
the facts to which w* have been re
peatedly calling attention. Too many
people art- leaving Richardson County
for the good of the county. This ten
dency is state wide, and the associa
tion of Commercial Clubs of Nebraska
are carrying on an active campaign of
state advertising to keep Nebraskans
at home and to induce immigration
The county can illy afford to h<> indif
ferent to this movement. We need
an organized effort in our own com
munity working untiringly for home ii
dustries and the development of na
tive utilities. We are surrounded by
inexhaustible natural resources. Wha
we need is to rightly appreciate our
possessions and to utilize them to
best advantage. Our people need to
be aw akened and made sensible "of the
untouched w-ealt.h hidden in Richard
. son County climate and soil.
